TB @ TEX
Home plate: Will Little
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 131 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.13▼8 · 1-0 strike called ball
Danny Jansen vs Kevin Kelly - 2-0.13▼10 · 1-0 ball called strike
Cody Freeman vs Tyler Wells - 3-0.10▲4 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Liam Hicks vs Jacob deGrom
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ryan Vilade — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Kenny Piper — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.